Quotes to inspire and reflect

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day.

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Let's have some new clichés.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it...

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

We only part to meet again.

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I ca Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi #15587 I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgot.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

We heed no instincts but our own.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude-it's a slam at the people they've met before.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.